Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s.

It is also known as Have No Fear Bond is Here in the lyricised version. Ginell lamented: 'Clearly, Alpert wasn't quite ready to re-emerge full-blown into the performing world.Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass provided the theme song for the non-Eon 1967 James Bond film Casino Royale, composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David, with the lyrics sung by Mike Redway.

In a modern-day review of the album for AllMusic, Richard S. This new Alpert Brass album will bring joy to his fans' hearts and gain him a legion of new ones.'

Publishers release books that don't tax the mind at this time of year too.' Writing in the Detroit Free Press in the same month, reviewer Bob Talbert had a more positive impression: 'Alpert has adjusted, one hopes, to the fact that even the Tom Joneses and Johnny Cashes cool off and find a steady sales and popularity groove. An August 1971 review distributed by the Gannett News Service concluded: 'Nothing exceptional in this album except some easy to take, summertime listening. Summertime received mixed contemporaneous reviews. Ĭover versions of contemporary and recent hits found on the album include the Beatles' ' Martha My Dear', Gordon Lightfoot's ' If You Could Read My Mind', the Beach Boys' ' Darlin'' and Little Anthony & the Imperials' ' Hurt So Bad'. 'The Nicest Things Happen' was written by Tijuana Brass member Julius Wechter and his wife Cissy. 74 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1970. 'Jerusalem', written by Alpert, and ' Strike Up the Band', another Gershwin tune, are tracks from a single that reached No. It was released as a single in June 1971 with 'Hurt So Bad' on the flip side, but it failed to chart. The title track is a version of the George Gershwin aria from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess, though influenced by the Miles Davis jazz interpretation of the song. It consists of tracks assembled by Alpert's A&M Records label and was released during Alpert's hiatus from performing that occurred between the albums The Brass Are Comin' (1969) and You Smile – The Song Begins (1974). Summertime is a 1971 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass chronology

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